Origins of Patriot Prime on Transformers Collecting

Hey, this is Steve Blum, and you are listening

to the Geekcast Radio Network. This is Optimus

Prime, and you're listening to all things Transformers.

Hello and welcome to an all new generation of

All Things Transformers as we get the origins

of any and all Transformers fans that we can.

I am of course TFU and Mike, and today's guest

is none other than Patriot Prime himself, so

stand at attention and get ready to transform

and transcend here on All Things Transformers.

Hello sir, how are you? I am doing good, how

are you this evening Mike? I'm pretty good, pretty

good. I'm excited for this. I recently, I've

only recently gotten into your circle. I think

it was through Rodimus Primal, probably most

likely. And he'll probably end up being the next

episode after you. Um, but yeah, I've watched

a bunch of your stuff and, uh, I think it was

like a day before I was going to pick up my pre

-order. You put out your, your giant, uh, Funko

Soundwave video and I'm like, Yeah, I can't wait

to get that thing Yeah, that was just a random

walk into GameStop and there it was and I'm like

man I didn't want it. But now that I see it,

it shall be mine. I remember how pissed everybody

was it was there was like there's only four cassette

characters So when I got at home When I got at

home, I opened him up because originally I didn't

think the tape deck was gonna open I thought

they were just gonna have like two little slots

on the tape deck and you just set the oh no That

tape deck opens, I was like, oh, Funko, you guys

just got it done right. So I'm looking to get

so much shit. I know, and I can't stand it. I

remember I've posted a couple reviews of some

of the Funko pops. I mean, the hate is just how

those stuff. A transformer is not a transformer

unless it transforms. I'm like, yeah, but it's

still the character. Yeah. That's it. That's,

that's what it's about is the character. Like

if you want a transformable generation one shockwave,

you can go back to 1984, five, six, whenever

shockwave came out and go get him and transform

him. I am 41, almost 42 years old. I am too old

and too damn tired to be transforming toys, but

I love having them in their little boxes and

just looking at the characters. That's one thing

I do gotta give Funko props for is the fact you

can take them out, look at them and put them

right back in the box. Yup. And the thing about

the sound wave everybody was complaining about

was like, it's only Buzzsaw, Rumble, Frenzy,

and Ravage. And I got mine and I looked at it.

I'm like, oh, because I thought, because Rumble

and Frenzy have the back of what they should

have on their cassettes. And I thought Buzzsaw

was just going to have his, like, holy shit,

there's Laserbeak. That's awesome. Yes. Very

ingenious. Um, and yes, we can curse around here

because I just, I always say, and I've said this,

we've been doing that. Steve is, this is actually

my buddy Steve Megatron's podcast, but I'm kind

of taking over while he's doing work and real

life things. I said to him when we created the

Geekcast Radio Network in 2009, I said, I do

not make podcasts for children. I do not make

podcasts. If you're 21 and over, great. If you

can drink, fine. You can listen to my podcast.

I don't give a shit. I am not making podcasts

for children. But at the same time, it's not

like we're saying curse words, every other word

out of our mouth. It's inflections. Like for

me, the explicit tag is all about The N -U -N

do's and the N -U -N don'ts, depending on what

you N -U -N don't. You know, that kind of thing,

so... Alright, we have 25 -26 questions here,

all about Transformers. Mr. Patriot Prime, did

you grow up with Transformers, and at what age

do you remember first noticing the franchise?

1984, I was 11. First notice the franchise with

issue number three of the Marvel comic series.

Well, you started in the comics and not the cartoon.

That's interesting. Yeah. When I was a TF con

last weekend, that was my goal was to have Bob

Budiansky sign my issue number three and mission

accomplished. I just ordered a frame for it today

and it's going to hang right here in my collection

room. That is awesome. And now is that the original

issue you had as a kid? No, that thing was destroyed.

Of course it was. You were a kid. This is one

I actually picked up at Shartacon in 2013. Not

many people remember that one and done convention

in Charlotte, North Carolina. That was actually

my first transformer convention. That's why I

actually got the nickname Patriot Prime was at

that convention. Oh, tell that story. I have

a tattoo of Optimus Prime wielding the American

flag on my left arm. I just had it done about

a week prior. It was still a little tender. So

I went to the convention. I had tank top on.

So everybody saw it and that's the nickname that

stuck. I would have thought it was because you

had been in the military. Well, that was the

idea behind the tattoo. I got it when I was 40

years old and I thought, I want something unique

and different. I'm a military veteran, proud

American, love Transformers. Boom. I'm going

to say this and I say it normally in jest. It's

the wrong prime. There can only be one chosen

one. Sorry, I'm a Rodimus boy. Ha ha ha! Ha ha

ha! Funny guy! Yeah. No, no, no. I'm a king of

quips and one -liners. There you go. I do love

Optimus. I give everybody a lot of crap because

everybody get, not you specifically, but everybody

in general gives me a lot of crap because I like

Rodimus more than Optimus and whatever, but -

What's funny is I am more of a Megatron fan than

Optimus Prime fan. but gray and black just wouldn't

look as good on the arm as no no no no you got

to have that pop of color all right what transformers

generation is your generation and why g1 i'm

old oh come on well and the way i look at there

is no one like g1 And we always keep going back

to G1. Every new generation of Transformer toys

that come out is still homage to Generation 1.

And that's just the way it is. I said, yes, the

toys have not aged well. The cartoon has not

aged well, but they're still... I mean, if you

look at Generation toys now, especially some

of the latter year figures, there's gimmicks

that they've done that they have yet to replicate

in the modern toys. Look at the head masters

the power masters. They did good with the target

masters here recently, but a lot of these I doubt

if we'll ever see again like pretenders. I would

love to see modern pretenders I know they could

do them now with good robots and shells that

actually have articulation, but will we get them

I doubt it I I don't know what has bro is doing

and I Said this in the last couple of a couple

of episodes. May the man rest in peace I don't

know after Brian's death what the next CEO of

Hasbro is going to do, what directive they're

going to give if they're going to stay on the

same path or if they're going to branch off into

other things. But like you said, it usually always

does come back to G1 because that's what sells

for the company. And you look at all the lines

that's come out, they always hit 84, 85, 86.

You still have 87 through 91. A lot of those

characters have not been touched yet. Okay. So

when, and this isn't just because I'm a Rodimus

fan boy, but it kind of is. When I saw Commander

Class Kingdom Rodimus, I was like, holy crap,

I'm nine years old and 1989 again, and I'm in

Keyvis Kane, Florida. Cause I remember this like

it was yesterday. We were staying at a hotel

down there and I was sitting by the pool playing

with the G1 Rodimus figure. I look at that new

one and I'm like, it's basically a modern version

of that. Why can't we have that with like Power

Master Optimus Prime? Cause I, yeah, you want

to talk about an Optimus Prime that I loved.

I love the generation one original 1984 figure,

but that Power Master Optimus Prime, I played

with that thing in the eighties so much. I lucked

out. I think it was the last TFCon and I got

the reissue version that has the God bomber trailer

with it. Oh, wow. That's cool. Guy sold it to

me for 50 bucks. He just didn't want to take

it home. I'm like, damn, okay. I bet that was

like Sunday or Monday, like when the convention

was ending. I think it was Saturday night. Oh,

okay. I was going to say, because usually Sunday

everybody's like... Sunday's the deal day at

most not just TF con but most most conventions

because everybody's getting ready to go home

They don't want to keep any other stuff anymore.

So You get a toy you get a toy you get a toy.

Just give me whatever money you want to get me

for it I got a couple deals. Let's go around

Very cool. We'll talk about the thing about power

master primes You can still get that vintage

figure for around 50 bucks complete because everybody

had it and there's tons of them out there Yeah

break as easy as the other power masters The

problem with those figures is little Timmy would

lose the power master engine and break the figure

trying to transform it. Yep. Poor Timmy. Poor

Timmy. He never knew how to transform his toys.

What other generations of Transformers do you

like? New modern line. I love, I guess they call

them the chug figures now. Okay. Because I've

pretty much ever since Beast Wars, I've collected

every line. but then I had the massive transformer

purge in 2012, got rid of most of everything.

All my Beast Wars, all my Armada, except Megatrons

and Primes. I always kept the Megatrons and Primes.

Then I guess when I started collecting again

is when the classics came out. Of course, in

each line you get those reissues or reimaginings

of that same figure. That's pretty much most

of my collection now. I love the modern tanks,

as soon as you think you got the perfect version

of this figure, then the next one comes along.

As like Siege Optimus Prime, for example, is

like, okay, he turned into a weird looking truck,

but beautiful figure. And then Earthrise came

out and you're like, oh my God. I'm just waiting

on a good Megatron. And I fully, as a G -Warner,

fully, fully understand that we are never going

to have a gun Megatron again. And I think Megatron

works as a tank. Absolutely, I agree. And these

transformations they have with him, where he

still looks like the G1 counterpart, looks great.

But for God's sakes, Hasbro learned how to hide

his fucking feet. I don't know if you saw, recently

I did a review of a KO Siege Megatron, and they

actually added hinges in the feet. I did see

that. And they would hide. Yeah. You know what?

I don't know why. And I don't, I don't know.

I don't work for Hasbro. You don't work for Hasbro.

We can as fans and lovers of the franchise say

what they should do or shouldn't do and things

like that. I don't know why they end up doing

what they do and what I love about now versus

either 10, 20, 30 years ago. We have the internet

we have streaming events we have Transformers

Tuesdays Transformers Thursdays fan first Friday,

whatever the hell they want to call the damn

thing for their their their branding and what

I love it about those things is you sometimes

you get to see the Transformers people talk about

why This was done or that was done versus 30

years ago when? You know nobody had Any access

and we were all too damn young anyway, so we

just wanted the toys back then All right, so

this one's usually a Contender for groaning.

Do you like or loathe the bavers or are you indifferent

to it? I'm indifferent. I like part one. I like

part three bits and pieces of the others And

the way I look at it is I'm also a DC Comics

fan, but I'm not a fan of the DC movies. I like

the DC animated movies. What I like about them,

they are alternate universe. So the way I approach

all these Transformers fictions and movies and

shows, it's all Transformers from different universes.

I can accept that. My problem with the Bayverse

movies, I don't care that the Decepticons look

like bugs and you can't tell one Autobot from

the next write a fucking cohesive story That's

very true That is very very true on the humans

I don't want to watch the humans As like to me

Bumblebee is the best live -action Transformers

movie that came out Other than the fact that

didn't have Megatron in it. I mean the opening

credits alone was worth the price with mission

Yeah, and I like the fact that we were introduced

to two new Decepticons that you know, they weren't

characters before I Mean, I think you had the

names later on in series, but I loved how they

were introduced They were good characters very

well written. You didn't have a whole bunch of

them The human interaction worked and I just

thought it was a good movie And now we got this

new one coming out with his new, I don't know,

my, it seems like there's a lot of old Bay seasoning

in this new movie. Yeah. I don't know what, what

they're doing with rise of the beasts. Cause

again, they're trying to combine everything into

one thing. And we'll complain all we want and

we're still gonna go see it. yeah probably the

only transformers movie i did not see in theaters

was the last night because i heard so much shit

about that movie i will save my money and i am

going to watch it when it comes out on streaming

yeah i made it 20 minutes into it i'm like this

sucks i'm done we don't promote this around here

at the geek cast radio network but i watched

a copy that fell off of the back of optimus's

truck online and That's all I watched it too.

I wouldn't say yeah. Well, I don't care. I don't

like I said I gave the The the disclaimer so

but it's one of those things where yeah, I like

you I maybe got 15 minutes into it and I'm just

like I will watch this later I now the first

three I know revenge of the fallen is revenge

of the fallen The first three I saw in theaters

because I am a Transformers fan. I was like,

okay, this is the first time, like especially

2007. And I know it's not a good movie. I get

it. It's not about that. It's about, it's 2007.

It's been however long it's been since the original

whatever. They're finally giving us a big budget

1987 He -Man, but with Transformers and moving

parts. the insides on the outsides and whatever.

So I gave it a chance and I gave it a shot. I

love being able to say that I was able to see

the first live action Transformers movie in theaters.

That has nothing to do with the quality of what

the films actually are. And I'll admit I've got

those on Blu -ray and a lot of times when I do

pop them in, I just go right to the action scenes.

They are pretty action scenes. Think I told this

to the last guest we had on Mikey O'Sullivan

from moon base to I said to him I found a YouTube

channel. I think it's called art of the film

or something I'll link it in the show notes or

whatever folks that he has this channel has a

video of a color combination of from 2007 to

I think age of extinction of Just the sound No

vocals, no care, just the sound effects. And

I'm like, this is the best way to watch these

movies. Just watch them. Watch the events as

they happen, but just the sound effects. No other,

you know, as much as I love Peter Cullen, as

much as I, you know, him or the, or the human

cast or whatever, whatever. Anyway, what was

your very first Transformers toy as a kid? G1

gears. Really? Yep. Hey, if you guys don't give

me my circuit back, I'm gonna start kicking transistor.

Alright, don't get your capacitors in an uproar.

There. So when do we roll out of here? This jungle

humidity is giving me a cramp in my chronometer.

Hey, now that's our gears. And my pulleys are

squeaking again. All right, let's blast that

solar needle and roll out. I suppose you want

me to do that. Be my guest. Got him at Sunday

School Gift Exchange. Oh, wow. That's cool. I

think that's the first time anyone has said gears

at all in this show. I could be wrong, but. I

love gears. I really did. And then at Christmas

it was Optimus Prime, Megatron, Soundblade, Ratchet,

Sunstreaker, and... Bumblebee? I think that might

have been it. Very cool, very cool. Now this

is a silly question. By the time the cartoon

was on, you were, like you said, 11, 12, 13.

You were almost a teenager at that point, but...

I usually ask this because I did, I was just

to go, how much of a young whippersnapper I am.

I was four when the cartoon came out. So in elementary

school, we always used to at recess say, I'm

going to be Optimus Prime. And then we would

act out whatever. So basically growing up, did

you and your friends ever pretend to play Transformers

say at school recess or anything like that? Not

really. We brought them to school and played

with them ourselves with toys. Yeah. I mean,

we had the toys. When I was growing up, I lived

out in the boonies, and I didn't get cables.

I didn't get to watch the cartoon as much as

my friends. My G1 fiction was Marvel Comics.

Really? You didn't get regular over -the -air

channels out there at all either? I did, but

the Transformers weren't on any of those. Really?

They were in Boston, but anyway, weird. Alright,

question seven. Who is your, and I know what

the answers are going to be, you get to pick

four, but I know what the answers are going to

be for two of them. Who is your end all be all

favorite character from any Transformers incarnation?

You can pick one Decepticon, one Autobot, and

one Maximal and one Predacon. Megatron. Scientific

Cowboy Cook Starscream. Megatron. Yes! Optimus

Prime. Autobots, roll! Inferno. As you command.

Inferno? Oh wow, cool. I love Inferno. He always

gets a raw deal. You do mean Beast Wars Inferno,

right? Oh yeah. It's always torn between him

and Dinobot because they had some of the best

one -liners in that show. One of my favorite

Dinobots was I like to beat my opponents the

old -fashioned way, brutally. Then you got Inferno.

Pain is my friend. Let me introduce you to him.

Absolutely. Love Inferno. What are some other

Transformers characters you like? Thunderwing.

Scorponok. Let's see. I'm starting to look around

my room now. Which Scorponok? Beast Wars or G1?

Oh, G1. Especially the way Marvel portrayed him.

He was just a brute. in the g1 cartoon but marvel

played him great bludgeon loved bludgeon now

a lot of these are characters that really need

to be fleshed out like right there we need a

modern thunder wing figure yes yes we do yeah

yeah absolutely the stunna cons they were my

favorite uh combiner team they were mine too

like i love the constructor cons the constructor

cons were awesome but I really dug the Stuntacons

because they were up against the Aerialbots who

were my favorite Autobot combining team. I don't

know what it was about the Stuntacons. I had

them as a kid. I just liked the idea of Motor

Master. I think that was one of the first cartoons

that I saw. Remember, their origin story was

Megatron was tired. The Autobots kept escaping.

He couldn't follow them on the ground. The idea

was to come up with these. Decepticon cars, and

that was just cool back then because that didn't

exist. The Autobots were cars, the Decepticons

were military vehicles and weapons. Yep. Motor

Master took on Optimus Prime in the cartoon and

they did a head -on collision. According to Teletran

1, Motor Master should be coming down this road

right about now. Well, look who's here! The old

king of the road! When I'm finished with you,

you'll be king of the junkyard! Optimus, you're

not going to play chicken with that recall model,

are you? He's got no choice, Spike. Motor Master's

got to be stopped. I've been waiting for this

a long time, Prime! And then when I got the Motor

Master toy, I'm like, what the hell? Yeah, it's

not exactly show accurate. Those are some toys

that I think could use a G1 updating. However,

the 2011 BotCon Stunticon job set for Animated

did a really good job. Now, I just got at TFCon

the Magic Square Stunticons. Have you seen those?

Mm -hmm. I like how Motor Master is the cab,

and he transforms into a robot that looks exactly

like he did in the cartoon, yet the trailer can

turn into Minasaur and then you just attach the

other cars to him. Very cool, very cool. That

sounds awesome, actually. Alright, now, we don't

like being negative, but I do have to ask this

question, because we asked the ones you like,

are there any Transformers characters you hate?

Wheely. Why does everybody pick on Wheely? I

do not like that guy. I mean, when he first popped

up and transforms the movie, I'm like, what the

hell is this? Anybody else? I'm thinking. I never

really liked Octane in the show. Loved Astro

Trane. He had the coolest voice. Beast Wars,

I know I'm probably gonna get some hate for this

never was a fan of rat trap Really? Yeah I just

I don't know. He just he just annoyed me taggertron.

He was kind of a hippie Could not stand Well,

I guess can't say a whole series but I hated

the unicorn trilogy Of course, those are the

cartoons that just they were terrible. They were

just that forced Japanese animation they tried

to force on us over here and it just didn't work.

Yeah, at least in my opinion I you know, I tried

watching it and It's where The humans really

started to great on me. Like look, I get it.

Spike and spark plug and Daniel and all that

aren't the greatest human characters in generation

one, but they're not as bad as kicker or whomever

else is in the, in the, the Unicron thing. Cause

I don't know. Maybe I need to revisit that at

some point because it just felt. Weird to me.

It did not feel like Transformers. I don't know

what they were thinking. I don't know what and

I really wasn't and this kind of ties into the

next question. I really wasn't like I was completely

out of it. Like I remember back in. I don't even

think I never saw the ending of G1. I never saw

rebirth as a kid i did see it as a kid but i

didn't see it on television it was a few years

later. Where they had the vhs tape of the three

episodes and i'm like wait what is this i thought

i thought it was a sequel to the movie. At the

time because there was i believe i'm could be

wrong most likely i'm wrong but there was one

or two or three vhs tapes with each part on it

or might better just one. And yeah, so the next

question over your lifetime, as you got older,

did your interest in the Transformers franchise

grow stronger or get weaker? The reason why I

say it ties into what I just said is because

there are times in my life where I had not been

like I was completely out of the franchise. So

what is your experience with that? Mine has just

grown stronger over the years. I mean, When I

first got out of G1, that's when you're in high

school and you're after the girls and toys aren't

a cool thing. And then once I started collecting,

I just never stopped. Now, granted, I didn't

like a lot of the cartoon series that came out,

but the toys that always came out was really

cool. Absolutely. Was there ever a moment, and

I can probably just answer for you, but was there

ever a moment in your life when you were just

done with all things Transformers? Just, nope,

I'm out. Yeah, right after I graduated. Graduated

in 91, and Beast Wars brought me back in 96.

There's one of the Transformers right now. Just

wait until Astrotrain shows up. He tends to show

up around this time of night out here. Oh, boy.

You're a sensible guy, so I know what this is

going to be, but I ask this because it just seems

like everybody wants to shout louder, but with

the internet giving birth to the fans and all

of us having a voice about what we like or don't

like about Transformers, do you find that your

voice gets lost in the shuffle or do you just

shout louder? Well, I lucked out and my voice

kinda found a footing. Because you know I started

my transformers YouTube channel and of course

there's thousands of Transformer YouTube channels,

and I was lucky enough where mine took off I

mean, I just celebrated year number four and

I'm already over ten thousand five hundred subscribers

Awesome, that is so cool. Yeah, I've got to meet

so many great people doing this I mean I went

to TF con with Rodimus Primal birth the stormtrooper

Kato, Deluxe Baldwin. We've all become real good

friends. We even had a panel that kicked off

TFCon. Yeah, I saw that. It's just unreal to

me. That's a franchise that I've loved since

I was a kid. Now, this year, 2021, at the ripe

old age of 48, I'm kicking off TFCon. How cool

is that? By doing a YouTube channel. that was

started by a dare. What was the dare? Well, years

ago, four years ago, rather, I worked a casino

security job with a bunch of other guys. We were

all ex -law enforcement, ex -military, and so

when you have a night off, you're up all night.

You don't sleep during the day or you don't sleep

at night. Yeah, you sleep during the day. So

we all got to play PlayStation. Okay. We were

playing games like Rainbow Six Tactical Shooters

and One of the guys was like, Hey, we ought to

play online and do a Twitch channel. And I'm

like, well, what the hell's Twitch? And he explained

it. And I was like, man, I am not that good with

online games to post my ass getting shot for

the world to see. And he says, well, you could

do a YouTube channel and tie it into Twitch.

And I was like, well, what am I going to talk

about on YouTube? He's like, well, you like them

transformer things. Talk about them. Very cool.

Now, I have to ask, since you brought this up,

you know, on your nights off, you would play

the shooting games as a former military person,

as a veteran. Doesn't that trigger you at all?

Like, doesn't that? I mean, I'm not trying to

go so deep, but I'm just like, I'm curious about

it because my uncle was a CB in the Navy back

in the day. Now that didn't when I first got

back from Iraq and I played I forget which Call

of Duty it was But there was one level where

you were in Iraq and when I played that level

I was like, holy shit. I am back Mm -hmm, but

I never really dealt with that much. I mean my

first year back home was kind of rough You know,

I couldn't shut my eyes without being back there.

But now it's no problem whatsoever Of course,

I don't play the tactical, I don't play hardly

anything anymore. You're too busy with that 10

,000 subscriber Transformers channel. Every spare

moment I have, I'm up here filming something.

Yeah. I mean, you know, I, you know, like, like

I said, I'm not trying to get too deep into your

life, but that's the whole point of why I do,

whether it's transformers, whether it's comics,

we actually, I have another one that you can

be on if you want to be on it. All about toy

collecting in general. We have 42 questions about

toy collecting, but the reason why, you know,

I asked that is because I just assumed that most

veterans who have seen real combat. Would not

go towards tactical shooters because I thought

it would have been a I Hate this word. I really

hate it. I thought it would have been a trigger

I thought it would have you know, like like you

just said would have put you back there put you

back in that moment and whatever so when you're

playing tactical shooters where you're like a

SWAT team, it's a lot different what I was when

I was You boots on the ground in Iraq, so it

never right. Okay You know, we got to get the

stories over here at the GeekCast Radio Network.

So, you know, we got to ask the hard questions

sometimes. What is your personal Transformers

anthem song? Examples are, and they does not

have to. Wow. Okay. That's my all time favorite

Transformers song. My favorite part. That one

in the generation two, not generation two, season

two opening of the show. I like that one better

than the season one. Yeah. Now it's funny because

I love Dare as well because I personally believe

that the touch is Optimus's theme and Dare is

Hot Rod slash Rodimus's theme. Now, what I love

most about Dare is the instrumental section where

the song breaks up, where Stan stops singing

and it's just all the, oh, I love that. I love

that. That's when Fancy Cola takes over. Yep,

absolutely. Absolutely. How often do you go back

and rewatch any of the Transformers cartoons?

Well, I just recently rewatched the movie not

too long ago. As far as the cartoons, every now

and then I have a seven -year -old son. He's

downstairs sitting. I'll try to pop on one. He

don't care. He's all about Minecraft and what's

new when he's playing. Among us? Among us? I

have no idea. I don't either. It's funny, you

have a son, you're like, man, I can't wait to

go toy hunting with him and doing this and doing

that. His ass is on the Switch all the time.

Back in my day, Switch meant something completely

different. Yes, it did. You got to pick your

own. Yeah. You just, you know, your dad or your

uncle or your grandfather, whatever, puts three

things out and make a choice. We all love Transformers

comics. Which incarnation do you love and why?

Oh, I really loved when Dreamwave took over I

like the dark themes because I think that was

the first comic we actually seen Megatron like

kill people Mm -hmm. And then of course that

got defunct, but they're the ones that brought

Transformers back into the forefront Now, of

course my main one is g1 for sure But then when

IDW came out, I liked IDW at first. Okay. When

they, I guess all the comics that led up into

the giant climactic battle that pretty much ended

the series until they branched off into the two

different ones. And then they just got weird

and political. And I'm like, I'm done. I want

to watch, read about robots killing each other.

I don't want, no politics, please. I mean, yes,

there are political commentaries in Robots in

Disguise and More Than Meets the Eye. The way

it was described to me was, Robots in Disguise

is society on Cybertron and how it's changing,

and More Than Meets the Eye is the space adventure,

adventure in space. Now that one I like, but

the problem was you couldn't read one or the

other. Blending together they didn't buy this

comic then you had to buy this comic just to

keep following that same story This is why I

don't do single issues anymore. This is why I

wait for the trades because that's what I started

doing yeah, because especially with IDW if you

wait for the The hardcover collections the IDW

collections. That's what I have I have all of

the I got all the first wave hardcovers I was

getting the others and they just got too expensive

and I thought you know what I'm good with the

initial story Yeah I love IDW for their IDW collections

because those IDW collections are collected in

story order. So like you were saying, you would

have like issues one through five of robots in

disguise and then issues one through five of

more than meets the eye or whatever. And then

you'd have like a couple of one shots sprinkled

in there while the one shots and all that stuff

is all put into the right order kind of thing.

Now I've seen your through some of your videos

I don't think I've seen your whole toy room,

but I've seen most of it for what you're showing

the screen But how big is your transformers toy

collection? I have a office upstairs It's a it's

a bedroom that I converted and I've got shelves

that just wrap around the entire room floor to

ceiling very cool Transformers, I've got start

collecting the Masters of the Universe origins

Used the room used to be split between transformers

and Star Wars. No, I just got bored with Star

Wars Yeah Yeah, I can I can see that This is

where the where we're more Funko love is gonna

come in folks. Because how do you feel about

non transforming transformers? I Feel like they're

still transformers. I've got plenty of the transform,

but if I see a good figure of a character that

I like that is a transformer. When he's on my

shelf, he's in robot mode anyway. It doesn't

bother me a bit. As a parent, how many transformers

does your son have? Hundreds. Does he play with

them? No. the reason why i'm framing it as a

parent is because i'm curious about this because

he got when he when i first found out i was having

a son i bought him an entire rescue bots collection

very cool he played with those a little bit and

then he got into imaginext and then it was like

these GI Joe not you know the Walmart GI Joe

knockoff figures and now it's Minecraft the reason

why i'm saying this is because i'm curious how

do you feel about Hasbro packaging the toys for

purchase in robot mode, because as a kid I was

like, Ooh, I get to transform this giant truck

into this giant robot. Whereas nowadays I think,

cause I don't have kids. I'm not having kids.

It's not, it's not a whatever, but that's what

I said. And then I turned 40 and got a surprise.

Yes. Well, yeah, no, there's just. We have separate

beds at this point, but anyway, so back to the

question of how do you feel about Hasbro using

the robot modes as the packaging now instead

of the alt modes? I hate it. I think it kind

of ruins it. I mean, the robots in disguise.

When we grew up in G1, you had the alt mode.

Okay, here's a cool car. And then you had that

fantastic airbrush artwork. Okay, there it's

the robot. And then that carried over through

all the generations, even Beast Wars, even animated,

robots in disguise, Armada. And I think it finally

changed. Was it? I remember the classics. Classics

still had them in vehicle mode. Yep. It was either

Titans, what were they? Trying to think the order

they came in. Titans Return, Combiner Wars, Prime

Wars. So maybe it was Titans Return. And I just

thought like, well, this sucks. There's the robot.

I want to see what it turns into. It takes the

fun out of it too as a reviewer for the longest

time. I always started in vehicle mode, but then

some people are like, well, you need to... Start

from robot mode so we can see how it transforms

the vehicle mode. So, yeah, I tried to do what

my fans like, but yeah, I hate it. It kind of

ruins some of the surprise. Well, see, that's

why a lot of, at least a lot of the YouTube reviewers

I used to watch, because I don't watch many of

them anymore. I mean, I watch your stuff and

I watch some other people's stuff, but I don't

watch, I don't watch YouTube Transformers reviewers

for the transformations because my collection

is solely Funco. I do not have any. Actual transform

like do I want so do I want that damn? Rodimus

no, yes him, but that's reformatted Galvatron.

Hell. Yes. I want that. Hell. Yes I want the

the the covert agent ravage, but my collection

is Funko I am NOT like the only non Funko things

I have right now are the Knight Rider Hot Wheels

car that came out recently and a 3d printed Grogu

baby Yoda thing my buddy made for me. I didn't

know Knight Rider had a Hot Wheels car. I've

got their Jada car. I got Knight Rider in a car.

Yup. Yeah, you got Kitten Car. Yeah, this one

just came out, I think. Oh, you're talking about

collections. I forgot to mention I also got a

nice NECA collection. Oh, very cool. Terminators,

Predators, and Jasons. Very cool. Very cool.

Okay, so everybody is safe the wife the kids

all of that the pets nothing is gonna happen

to you or them But the house is burning down.

What is the one Transformers toy? You could never

part with ever. What's the one thing you'd run

into save? MP01 Optimus Prime my wife bought

him for me while I was in Iraq awesome, very

cool he was actually the Mascot of my channel

for a long time. I took a picture of him holding

a little American flag Very cool That is so that's

awesome What is the most money you spent on a

transformers toy or a toy item? So, you know,

it doesn't necessarily still peaked at three

hundred and fifty dollars Really and that was

for that reissue fortress maximus that came out

a few years ago. Oh Wow Man, I thought I was

never gonna get one of those and then they reissued

it and I'm like, yes I am yep absolutely do you

have a my parents got rid of my toys story no

my dumbass got rid of my toys I traded my entire

transformer collection back in the day for a

Super Nintendo see I didn't have well I mean

this only could the reason why I asked that question

is because at six years old my dad said I was

too old for toys and he sold all of my Masters

of the universe villains that I had at his house

for some odd reason I I know the listeners are

tired of me telling this story But since I usually

don't preamble with my guests too much. I usually

end up telling this every episode I Kept for

some odd reason I kept the heroic warriors At

my mom's house where I lived most of the time

and I kept the evil warriors at my dad's house

Where I was only there maybe two or three times

a week or so Anyway If you could voice any Transformers

character, who would it be and why? Oh That's

a good one I would say Probably somebody like

brawl Because I you know military guy I was actually

in artillery, but unfortunately there is no howitzer

transformers and that's what we So the closest

we got is the tanks. And to this day, we really

don't have any howitzers or transformers. That

needs a change. Yes, yes it does. Hasbro, if

you're listening, please don't sue us. Who is

your favorite Transformers actor or voice actor?

David Kay. Yes! Yeah, he's pretty awesome. He

was supposed to be at TFCon and something happened.

I got to meet Gary Chalk instead, but man, I

was wanting to meet David Kaye. Yeah. I remember

TFCon Baltimore 2021 this year. It was supposed

to be David Kaye, Gary Chalk and Venus Terzo

and some other channel. I forget what channel

it was, but they put up the opening where Gary

is singing happy birthday to Venus. So good,

so good. Okay, so this can't be anything that's

already released. What is your dream masterpiece

figure that they haven't done yet? Have they

done a Blitzwing yet? Because I don't collect

masterpiece. Oh, I probably I don't know. I've

always liked Blitzwing. He's my favorite triple

changer. Very cool. Very cool. I would say overlord

too, but I've got the double evil version of

him. He's amazing. Hmm. Very awesome. Very awesome.

Where do you land on the Rumble is blue. Frenzy

is red or frenzy or Rumble is red. Frenzy is

blue debate. Oh, that's easy. Rumble's blue.

That's right. I always say what the cartoon says,

rumble is purple and frenzy is black. Or Marvel

comics, they could never make up their mind.

That's true. If you could create any Transformers

fiction, toy, cartoon, comic, et cetera, what

would it be and what story would you want to

tell with it? I would love to do one and it has

to have a toy line to go with it. transformers

apocalypse the transformers land on earth after

the nuclear war and all the vehicles and transformers

turn into mad max type vehicles and they have

to help the humans survive while the decepticons

are plundering the planet for whatever riches

and resources are left hmm interesting very cool

very cool Alright, last question. What is one

piece of advice that you'd give the Transformers

fandom and collectors in general? Don't worry

about the size of your collection compared to

others. We all start somewhere. Absolutely. Alright

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the 2008 show the cartoon the 2008 cartoon show

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